{"id":878056,"date":"2026-09-03T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878056\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:26:12","slug":"his-side-noel-mikaelian-lays-out-why-he-rejects-don-king-and-wbc-for-jai-opetaia-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878056\/","title":{"rendered":"His side: Noel Mikaelian lays out why he rejects Don King and WBC for Jai Opetaia fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI&#8217;m looking forward to it. [Opetaia\u2019s] a very good fighter, very strong, a good technician, Southpaw,\u201d Mikaelian said. \u201cHe has flaws. We all have flaws. I can&#8217;t expose the flaws right now. I can&#8217;t underestimate him, but we are all also not invincible. We&#8217;re all humans and we will go in there like two gentlemen and fight it out on September 12th, and the better man will win and\u00a0 get the number one spot in what\u2019s a great division.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI&#8217;m looking forward to it. [Opetaia\u2019s] a very good fighter, very strong, a good technician, Southpaw,\u201d Mikaelian said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,13412,53146,176331,85],"class_list":["post-878056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-david-benavidez","tag-jai-opetaia","tag-noel-mikaelian","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}